John Wes Hardin

Many people have a pretty basic understanding on the legendary outlaws such as Billy the Kid, Jesse James and Butch Cassidy, but clearly one of the legendary long-forgotten outlaws doesn’t get enough credit. This legendary outlaw is obviously John Wesley Hardin, who was an outlaw in the Old West. He was a cowboy, who killed many people on the Chisolm trail. He was also someone who had no control over his unreasonable anger issues. John Wesley Hardin has many aspects of himself that need to be broken down into pieces to help the understanding of him become exceptional. He has important topics from his life facts, all the way to his significance in his time and in modern day. Many events happened because of John Wesley Hardin, and some

Usually people may get angry when the same thing that they dislike is being repeated over and over again, but with John Wesley Hardin, it is way more serious, as indicated by the following quote. “Hardin, and at least one other cow hand, began firing bullets through the bedroom wall and ceiling, in an attempt to stop the snoring which was coming from the next room.”(Blanco p23) His anger issues caused himself to completely lash out on the stranger who was only snoring, as Hardin could have just asked for the snoring to stop. Another result of his anger issues was when he was walking home with a lady and a man asking for money ran up to him, which is explained in the following quote. “Hardin shot the would-be thief when he bent to pick it up.”(Blanco p15) His anger over the fact that the man was desperate for money enraged him, which sparked his anger issues and the frantic would-be thief died because of it. Having anger issues can make a man do anything that’s completely unnecessary. However, his anger issues caused a lot of havoc, and the outcomes of his actions were incredibly dreadful and enduring for